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Sure, its great that she loves wilhelmina and the skeleton... what about mommy
and daddy, childhood friends, brothers and sisters, etc... Was she always a ghost??

She's not a ghost; she's an orphan. It was explained at the beginning of the arc that she was an orphan that they took in. A living orphan, not a torch. Hence there is no mommy or daddy -- only Wilhelmina and Alastor.

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There's not that fine a line between willing suspension of disbelief and something just being stupid.

It's too bad they had to cram everything to get it to fit. What would be nice would be for the animators to create an OVA series describing the story of Mathilde, Wilhelmina and Merihim, since it seemed there was a lot of things being hinted but not explained.

Man, I'm starting to like the ED song a lot more, especially the melty chord progression for its chorus.

Spoiler for question for episode 3:

Does anyone know what Shana was shouting just before finishing off Merihim? It seems that the animators decided not to actually voice that but leave it up to interpretation.

I would say she's shouting his name, Shiro. In essence, he used to be her teacher in combat skills.At least, what I did she did shout, from normal production doctrines.

Spoiler for episode 3:

The thing is, though, it looked like she uttered around 4 syllables. Basically, she yells the first syllable, then snap her teeth together, goes through the second syllable and then closes partway before going to the third syllable and then closing all the way until she says the fourth syllable. I'm tempted to say "arigatou" but it doesn't quite fit :/

The thing is, though, it looked like she uttered around 4 syllables. Basically, she yells the first syllable, then snap her teeth together, goes through the second syllable and then closes partway before going to the third syllable and then closing all the way until she says the fourth syllable. I'm tempted to say "arigatou" but it doesn't quite fit :/

Spoiler:

Hmm... maybe "Shiro.... nande da yo?. I would say that Merihim probably is pretty darn strong based on the fact that the previous Enpatsu needed to use Tenpa Jousai to defeat him (purely speculated). Shana, being a new Flame Haze, probably knows that she can't defeat him, so asks him why did she give her a chance .

It's too bad they had to cram everything to get it to fit. What would be nice would be for the animators to create an OVA series describing the story of Mathilde, Wilhelmina and Merihim, since it seemed there was a lot of things being hinted but not explained.

Man, I'm starting to like the ED song a lot more, especially the melty chord progression for its chorus.

Spoiler for question for episode 3:

Does anyone know what Shana was shouting just before finishing off Merihim? It seems that the animators decided not to actually voice that but leave it up to interpretation.

I don't know about an OVA, but they may animate more backstory involving Mathilde and Wirhelmina later. According to the guidebook I bought, it takes place in 16th century Rome. This particular arc was "episode 5" (I assume it's novel 5), and the other flashback arc takes place in "episode 10." It looks like they're taking about 3 to 4 TV episodes per arc.

Spoiler:

As for what Shana's shouting is up to speculation. I figured she was saying the usual cliched "Don't die" type of thing.

She's not a ghost; she's an orphan. It was explained at the beginning of the arc that she was an orphan that they took in. A living orphan, not a torch. Hence there is no mommy or daddy -- only Wilhelmina and Alastor.

Ah thx, missed that.

I was somehow assuming you had to die before becoming a flame-haze,

but now the part where shana said she was the same as the misutesu guy makes sense

suman!

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I rewatched that part and I think I see it now.
When he said they "picked her up on a whim" and that the "accident" was unfortunate,
and that she had nowhere to go makes more sense if she was not an orphan..

I had kindof assumed that she was killed and they picked her up as a ghost i guess....
Being able to fight with the skeleton shiro at that level as a fleshy human seems so unlikely...
Did you read the novel or why are you assuming she was an orphan?
I'd be interested to know what "fukou na dekigoto" they were referring to...

Maybe there was a car crash or something, and shana was too young to remember her
family?